senior Cloud Network Engineer

Senior Cloud Network Engineer Location-Louisville, KY (Onsite) long term contract The Senior Cloud Network Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, and support of large-scale Hybrid and Multi-Cloud environments. This hands-on position will provide technical expertise regarding such things as Palo Alto Firewall, SDN, NFV, Network automation, LAN / WAN, VPN, and Load-balancing technologies within a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure. This Engineer will take direction from the department Leads to perform all tasks related to our objectives focused in providing connectivity to Cloud Service Providers and 3rd party businesses. Detailed Job Description The Senior Cloud Network Engineer will be responsible for providing engineering and operational support for client's multi-cloud, multi-region hybrid cloud infrastructures which includes on premise datacenters which serves as on ramps to cloud service providers like Azure, AWS and GCP. The primary responsibility of the Senior Network Cloud Engineer will be to provide the highest quality network infrastructure environment support which includes management and troubleshooting of network solutions including routers, firewalls, switches, appliances, and cloud native network and security solutions. The position will have the following responsibilities: Maintain and operate network solutions (routers, Palo Alto and other firewalls, switches, cloud networking) in the cloud and in on premise datacenters with a focus on reliability, throughput, scalability, and security which will help us scale with the needs of the business Monitor and tune network infrastructure to identify and eliminate issues and potential bottlenecks Provide a level of escalation in response to incidents/requests regarding network performance and configuration, including off hour's escalations Maintain network documentation, run-books, diagrams, and network assets in the configuration management database Develop and continually improve guidelines and procedures related to Network management including process and efficiency improvements Provisioning and configuration of private network circuits for connectivity from Datacenter, WAN, and Campus network to our cloud network. Integration with related infrastructure engineering efforts. Disaster recovery/business continuity integration. Write & maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform Enterprise, and Ansible Required Qualifications 5 years of experience designing, deploying, maintaining, and improving wired, and cloud networks Areas of focus are preferred with Cisco, Palo Alto. Strong BGP knowledge and experience is a must 2 years of recent and progressive technical experience in cloud network technologies Hands on experience with cloud service providers Microsoft Azure, GCP and AWS Intermediate knowledge of at least one Infrastructure-as-a-Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc.) Ability to perform, analyze and deduce information from network packet captures using on premise and cloud solutions Experience working with Data Center Colocation facilities and Cloud Partner network access provided by vendors such as Equinix and Mega-Port. Preferred Qualifications Demonstrated experience with Agile, DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code Programming/scripting language experience such as Terraform, Python, Ansible. Deep understanding of virtual network appliance offerings and how to apply them to public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP). Familiarity with cloud-native security and network solutions and tools in Azure, AWS and/or Google Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, ThousandEyes, StealthWatch, BigPanda is a plus Strong scripting experience: Terraform, Ansible, Python, Perl, bash Experience with Container technologies, Docker, Kubernetes, ISTIO and similar are bonuses